September 26, 20205 yr Hello! Just tried setting up unraid for the first time ever, and when I turned it on, the parity drive immediately went into a disabled state. I ran a read-check wondering if maybe the Parity drive just starts in a failed state until you've completed the first check. Unfortunately, that didn't fix it. I turned off the computer and checked all of the power and data connections, rebooted, and still the same issue. I then swapped out the drive for an alternate, and tried to restart the array with the new parity drive and it failed immediately as well. I then swapped the SATA cable with one of the other drives, and that drive that was now on the "bad cable" was then in a failed state. I've ordered a replacement cable, but wanted to post my logs here to see if there was something else I should be trying to do Edited September 26, 20205 yr by GalaxyBird
September 27, 20205 yr Author My partner actually just suggested restarting but with only 7 drives active. So a parity + 6, and then adding the 7th later once I've got a working cable (or have assessed the issue is with the NAS case backplane possible?). Is that feasible? Looking around, it seems like re-creating the bootable drive is the key ( ) but I'm not sure if I need to do that or not. I certainly don't need to follow data loss precautions since all of these drives are fresh.
September 27, 20205 yr Community Expert 8 minutes ago, GalaxyBird said: suggested restarting but with only 7 drives active. If you want to shrink the array, go to Tools - New Config, keep all assignments, then before starting the array, make any changes you want such as removing a drive. Then start the array and let it rebuild parity. Be sure you don't assign a data disk to a parity slot or it will be overwritten by parity.
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